André Damseaux
André Damseaux ( born March 5, 1937 in Verviers, † 29 March 2007 in Jalhay ) was a Belgian politician of the Mouvement Réformateur ( MR). He was for many years Parliamentarians ( Chamber of Deputies, Parliament, Parliament of the French Community ) and party president. Damseaux also briefly held the post of Prime Minister of the Walloon Region. At the local level he was mayor of Verviers.
Curriculum vitae
André Damseaux had a degree in Diplomacy (University of Liège ( ULg ), 1961 ) and political science ( ULg, 1964). Before graduating, he spent two years in the UK and in Germany, where he improved his language skills. His entry into professional life experienced Damseaux as a journalist for the newspaper La Meuse.
Political career
The political career of Damseaux initially began at the local level in Verviers, where he was in 1965 elected to the council. In 1971, he settled for the liberal PLP ( Parti de la liberté et du progrès, predecessor of today's MR), in which he as President of the francophone wing ( PLPW ) was in 1973, select in the Chamber of Deputies. Under the presidency of Damseaux the PLP was renamed after the merger with the Rassemblement Wallon (RW), the party of Jean Gol, François Perin and Etienne Knoops, in PRLW ( Parti des Reformes et de la liberté de Wallonie ). His party leader, he gave in 1979 at Gol, who made an association with the Brussels Liberals and renaming the party Parti Réformateur Libéral (PRL ).
André Damseaux in 1977 elected to the first Parliament. In 1980 he returned to the Walloon Region to be there, appointed Prime Minister of the first chosen by the Walloon Regional Government, in which the parties PRL, PS and PSC were represented proportionally. This office was Damseaux after ten months as a result of an agreement to Jean -Maurice Dehousse (PS ) from. However, he remained Walloon Minister for Administrative supervision of local authorities and external relations. In 1985, he joined the National Government under Wilfried Martens ( CVP) and was Minister of National Education. There Damseaux suffered some difficulties, so he was forced to resign. He later claimed to have regretted the leap to the national government.
Then Damseaux left national politics and was mayor for six years from Verviers. This office he could not defend after the 1994 elections and the leap into the regional parliament he failed in 1995. Due to a constitutional uncertainty that is fixed today, André Damseaux but Alfred Evers (PFF ) replaced the Parliament of the French Community, as it could not meet at the same time in the parliaments of the French and German-speaking community as a local councilor in the German language area.
His political career ended André Damseaux in the Walloon Parliament and the council of Jalhay.
Honors
André Damseaux was commander of the Order of Leopold. He was elected to the Institut Jules Destrée one of the 100 most important Walloon personalities of the twentieth century.